If you want to get away with something, don't use Gmail. As David Petraeus and his sexytime lady friend Paula Broadwell learned, thanks to rich data that Google stores from every email, you will be found out. Read More >>
Google’s rolling out a redesign of the Gmail compose functionality that will save heavy email users a lot of time. The new compose window won’t take up the entire large frame of your Gmail anymore. Instead, it’ll look like a larger version of the Gchat window that you’re used to. Read More >>
If you're signed in to Google and have opted in to its new search upgrade field test, the main Google search window can now display results from your Gmail account and list any relevant docs or files it finds stored inside your Google Drive cloud storage area. Read More >>
Featured comment by Jon D:
"I think you're confusing Google with Facebook :)
I'm with you though. I am really not interested in seeing stuff I already know when I Google somet..." More »
Obviously the hatred, and determination to destroy one another's mobile OS, was only one sided between Apple and Google. Steve Jobs might have hated Android, and wanted to annihilate it, but it looks like big G kind of loved Steve Jobs. Just take a look at these hidden tributes to Jobs in Google's Gmail app. Read More >>
Featured comment by gnargle:
"People who have sense didn't like him since he was an arsehole.
People who liked him either didn't know anything about him (the general public, reall..." More »
After seriously flipping out, cutting of Iranian access to Google and basically herding all its citizens into a tiny little government-approved intra-net pen, the Iranian government has softened its Internet ban just a little bit and restored access to Gmail. Read More >>
Featured comment by Taf:
"Tut tut is what I said when I opened the seconded box. Looks like I got the bad apple that fell of the tree, must cave got bruised...
Guess I knew ..." More »
While Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in New York saying some words nobody believes, his cronies at home are shutting every single one of their citizens out of the internet. Their excuse: 'we may get attacked by zionist viruses!' But of course! Read More >>
You wield an iPhone, but you've been longing for Android ever since slapping eyes on Ice Cream Sandwich. In fact, you'd have switched if it wasn't for that blasted app lock-in we're all suffering from these days. Fear not, Google to the rescue! Pretend your iPhone is an Android, with the help of the updated Gmail app, which can now open things directly in Chrome -- screw that blasted mobile Safari. Read More >>
Featured comment by otaviokz:
"And that cool notifications bar added on iOS 5, which you can open by sliding you finger from the top of the screen down. Was that copie by android Gi..." More »
Google's going to start showing you relevant information from your Gmail when you perform a regular old Google search soon. But you can try it out now before it's official. Read More >>
Google has rolled out a minor update to Gmail for iOS. Version 1.3 includes faster scrolling and animation (thankfully) on the iPhone and iPod touch. Additionally, now you can save photo attachments to your library the same way you save images from Facebook on your phone, by simply touching and holding. Google has also mended some bugs, and these aren't a huge changes, but they're definitely positive ones. [9to5Mac] Read More >>
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"No, you have to log in to each of these services separately using your Google account, the fact that it is seamless may make it appear as though the a..." More »
Sparrow's email apps on OS X and iOS are wonderful, but we weren't the only ones noticing that. Google noticed too, and that's why they snatched up the small software developer. But what does it mean for the future of Sparrow's apps, and also Gmail? Read More >>
If you live in a country where internet connections are spotty, slow, or non-existent, Google wants to bring you your Gmail via text message. On the Google Africa Blog, the Product Manager for Emerging Markets announced that Google SMS would launch in three countries today: Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya. Read More >>
Google just updated the Gmail iOS app, adding improvements that might encourage people to, you know, actually use it. The most important upgrade is support for Notification Center, which means you can now configure the app to show you alerts with message previews. Read More >>
Circl.es is an online dating site that, rather than relying on the data produced by a complex algorithm of self-reported answers, uses a person's own public Facebook profile. Read More >>
Featured comment by flynndean:
"Just those two quotes? How about the rest of the article?
My favourite is the first paragraph. It reads like it was written by the Circl.es market..." More »
Google has decided that Gmail needs to be even more complex and laden with social features, adding new Contacts display options to its search box and introducing searches for messages sent to specific Circles of people. Read More >>
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